A giveaway from Lunchboxes with Love!

This month’s competition is courtesy of the fabulous and inspiring Cath at Lunchboxes with Love. She was an early Vegie Smugglers supporter, supplying me with props for my Lunchbox Planner e-book. We’ve been in touch ever since and I love watching her business grow. Go Cath!

With so much AWESOME, your kids will be eating up every little scrap of their lunches. Especially once you start whipping up recipes from my new ebook, “10 quickbakes plus 10 sandwich spreads”, which will be available in a day or two.

To be eligible to win all of these items from Lunchboxes with Love, you must be an Australian-based Vegie Smugglers subscriber, then, simply comment below on the items that are most popular in your kids’ lunchboxes. Inspire us all!

Entries close Monday April 22 at 5pm AET.
24/4/2013 – THANKS EVERYONE FOR YOUR ENTRIES – AND CONGRATULATIONS TO DEB JAY FOR TAKING OUT THE SET – HOPE YOU ENJOY IT DEB!

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i have made your beetroot and choc brownies and they went down a treat! tho instead of cutting them in squares i put the mix in a biger pan and made it thinner cooked it for less then with some small shaped cutters than my nan gave me cut out little shapes.my 2yr old poppy loved the butterflies that i cut out for her!!!! and my 11yr old wanted them in her lunch too!!!!

Ruth said,

Wow – thanks for an awesome giveaway. My girls are particularly keen on boiled eggs in their lunchboxes at the moment, and my youngest asks for a turkey wrap every day since she discovered she had a passion for turkey on Christmas Day! Easy peasy!

Meghan said,

melanie w said,

I made my children zucchini slice for their lunchbox for the first time this week it was a smash hit so much so they wanted it for lunch again the next day! i always put in some sort of fruit muffin or banana and date loaf, they love rice crackers, rice cakes and dried fruit. Their school has alot of restrictions as to what they can have in their lunchboxes because of allergies and their healthy eating system so it can get hard to keep it interesting but thankfully my bunch like to try most things i make and im always making something :0)

Sarah said,

My boys are too little for lunchboxes yet but at home we often have a little sample plate for lunch with things like cheese, beetroot, tomato, cucumber, sandwich triangle, crackers, or cheese puffs. The boys both love these sorts of lunches

Fiona said,

Boiled eggs with different faces drawn on the shell, small thermos pot with steamed rice with Japanese “sprinkles” sausage rolls I think I saw on this site with brown lentils added to veg and turkey mince, homemade pizza scrolls, carrot sticks and crackers with pot of cream cheese dip ( made with cream cheese yogurt, garlic and herbs from garden) oh and vegemite and cucumber sandwiches if nothing in the fridge!

Natural New Age Mum said,

Claire Bailey said,

All you need to do is at the bottom of the email click where it says “Unsubscribe or change your email settings at Manage Subscriptions.” As Wendy said before it’s not something she can manage, it is done by the mailing list provider.

Claire Bailey said,

I don’t seem to be able to put the same thing in the lunch box for more than a few times before he stops eating it and says he doesn’t like it, even if he hasn’t had it for more than a week. Except plums, he has been asking for them for morning tea every day for the last month.

Brooke said,

Carlie said,

This is a business local to me and have been a follower for a while now!! I would love to win this package… my dd is not yet 2 but would be fantastic for when she does start school!! She loves snacking on everything… cheese, tomatoes, strawberries, grapes, bikkies/veggies and dips, rice-cakes, sandwiches… this lunchbox would be perfect for her 😀 !

sheridan said,

I love being able to give my little fussiness’ a chocolate zuchini bran muffin out of their lunchbox when they feel like a treat. I smile thinking how very clever I am to sneak that into their diet! My hubby is also fooled…..

Lel said,

My little person is not quite old enough to have a lunchbox packed but she will be soon! Her snack bag almost always has fruit (banana/pear/apple/grapes) slices of cucumber, carrot sticks, capsicum sticks, salad sangs, sultanas, yoghurt & muesli/fruit bars!

Jo B said,

I love doing lunchboxes! Favourites at the moment are ‘Hungry Caterpillar’ morning tea – appropriate slices of fruit with a hole through the middle (by using a straw). A cheese caterpillar is a good addition! Homemade lunchbox favourites include mini bran and sultana muffins, ‘pizza’ scrolls (lots of veggie sauce in there), california roll (made by us – a bit ‘rustic’ but who cares), tuna and avo sushi sandwiches, zucchini and corn muffins, museli bars and finally sausage, pesto and corn mini quiche

Tracey Kellock said,

my kids love wendys’ vegie slice and salmon patties, they make great lunch box fillers, even cold, theu alo love my version of sushi sandwiches filled with ham and mashed avocado to “stick” it together

Jackie said,

Awesome giveaway! Thanks to your recipes my toddler is as of this evening eating cherry tomatoes (did the lamb & feta balls with pasta salad – yum!) so they will be regulars in her lunch box as of now 🙂 Also grapes, cheese cubes, wholegrain crackers… We had a thing for your choc chip biscuits from the lunches ebook for a while, she LOVED them in her box…but sadly this mama could not control herself when faced with entire batch 😉

Kirsten said,

My boy loves chicken sandwiches. We also have a Foogo thermos which I fill with sun-dried tomato tuna with brown rice, or leftovers from dinner. I keep baked healthy goodies in the freezer to have on hand such as Wendy’s carrot and banana muffins, cheese polenta and corn muffins, cheesymite scrolls, mini pizzas.

Nicole Edwards said,

I will be buying your book at the Little Me Market this weekend as I am DESPERATE to get our son to eat vegetables!! I would love to win this pack to compliment the new menu we will be serving up from your recipes!!

Nix said,

Jeni said,

Oooh this comp very much excites me! I love the idea of the bento box and have had no luck finding this sort of thing in stores so will definitely checkout lunch boxes with love. What better way to smuggle than in super cute little containers – fun to pack and fun to eat. So master 3 is a fussy little man – which is what lead me to vegie smugglers in the first place – however he is very much the fan of a mystery box or what we call the tasting plate – kinda like a buffet – a bit of this and a bit of that. Sure fire winners include mountain bread wraps with peanut butter, ricotta and sultana filling, avocado rice crackers, dates (he thinks they are lollies), dried apricots (again he thinks they are lollies), microwave popcorn (put a tablespoon of popping corn in brown paper bag, fold down the top and microwave for 3 minutes or so for super healthy, cheap, freshly popped corn), carrot sticks with hommus and sultana bran bites as a little crunchy snack!

My son gets fruit like kiwi, apple, watermelon, mandarin or orange and vegies like beans, peas, baby corn, baby capsicums, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, carrot, mushroom and salads with rocket, spinach and one of the choys topped with sesame oil. I take turns cutting his fruit and veg into sticks, wedges, slices, towers, curls, cubes, crinkle-cut cubes or ribbons. I then add a special treat like sultanas, crackers, custard, 3-4 m&m’s or chic nuts. Sometimes he gets added cold cuts as well like diced roast chicken or some ham ribbons. And while some days he will eat it all and others he will eat virtually none he will always, ALWAYS eat his vegemite sandwich on brown bread. It’s the one part of his lunch that never changes 😉

Melissa Smith said,

Tasch said,

Kidney beans! No matter what we offer our almost 3 year old he wants “just some red beans please-thank you”… closely followed by cheese, kiwi fruit, GREEN apples, an “orange orange”, strawberries, rockmelon, grapes, sutanas, avocado & cheese sandwich and the super special treat.. wholemeal blueberry & banana (no sugar) pikelets with peanut butter and banana! …(Our no junk food thing has payed off.. at a birthday party recently he didn’t even look at any of the sweet stuff, but a mum came and told me he had commandeered the fruit platter!)

Jen said,

We have a very strict kinder food policy, no homemade and no packaged!! We have shape sandwiches, grapes, cheese/ham/salami cut into shapes and layer into stacks. Olives and cubes of feta with crackers or toasted pita. Thankfully my son’s school is less restuctive and I get to flex my baking skills with savoury scrolls and carrot cake, nom, nom 🙂

katherine wykes said,

Favourite foods come and go, but my children always love little objects or notes in their lunchbox to make them laugh or tell them how much I love them. Probably not what you’re looking for but also nourishing 🙂

Aldi sell little ‘cukes’ – and my girls are loving taking them to school. We also do the carrot sticks & hummus thing. I’ve got one dairy freak and a cheese stick is mandatory in her lunch box. My husband makes great tabouli (& felafel, sometimes) and a tabouli wrap is always well received!

Forgot to say – always a treat in the lunchbox (cause its what I grew up with) – usually a muffin or cookie (vegiesmugglers recipe) but sometimes I manage to find other healthy recipes – chocolate porrige cake, fruity muffins or pikelets….I’m not very touchy-feely so my husband reckons I show my love with my baking!

Billeebee said,

A pieceof fruit and yogurt for morning tea a nutritious and energy packed wrap or sanga and of course i smuggle in a healthy treat for arvo tea . The lunch boxs would be great in keeping the food fresh and tasty until lunch time.

Alison Wilson said,

pumpkin scones are a fave here – he doesn’t start kindy till next year so I will be reading all these comments to brainstorm some ideas for lunchboxes. The only sandwich he will eat is jam, so would love these sandwich cutters to hopefully inspire him to try something more adventurous, at the moment I have to deconstruct like some others have mentioned.

Would love this kind of aid for making my girls lunches. I am being audited every day of what goes in and if it is not 100% to the order it comes back. Like rice crackers, I put some butter and cheese and when I asked what was wrong ? THERE was not Vegemite on it, I wanted vegimite! Now it comes down to how I am cutting the sandwiches this way or that way and near tears if I did not cut exactly they way she thinks she instructed me to cut…..give me the cutting gadget any time that would cut down any delays in disagreeing of the sandwich is being cut.

Leesa Bigham said,

I’m hearing you! And how stubborn are they. My little miss 4 will refuse to eat it if I haven’t cut it the way she wants that day, she will eat everything else in her lunchbox and leave the “wrong” sandwich just to prove a point lol

Leesa Bigham said,

Your choc, zucchini, bran muffins are a hit in this house. On Sundays when I’m feeling like mother-of-the-year lol I make up a double batch and freeze them. Then when I’m back to stressed frazzled mum through the week I can grab one out of the freezer, throw it in the lunchbox and good to go. My mum loves them as well. Thanks Wendy, your blog keeps me sane xx

My kids love my banana cake. I smuggle in cannellini beans and usually some zucchini, and substitute 1/2 the sugar for apple sauce It is so popular with friends and family that it rarely lasts long enough to be iced! Now that the colder weather has begun I have put my slinky machine out on the bench. Kids love making their own snacks.

Homemade “pizza” bread rolls (part wholemeal) are definitely the favourite for our kids – even just sliced tomato and cheese baked on top in a rush. They freeze awesomely and are ready to go straight into lunchboxes so they’re also a favourite for Mum & Dad here 🙂

Foodpicks are my secret weapon. My little man will eat absolutely anything served on a stick or food pick. Think cheese wrapped in ham on a giraffe pick or a watermelon cube and fetta on a little flower pick. It makes snack and lunch food look gorgeous.

vicki boyle said,

Karen said,

My daughter loves a mixture. We do a bento style with anything we have on hand. Olives, sundried tomatoes, cheese, celery and carrots are the usual bases and we add hommus or home made dip, and even left over roast meat and veges go in there.
Awesome giveaway. Thank you.

Michelle said,

What an awesome giveaway. My kids love their salad sandwiches with all fresh ingredients. I make a batch of different kind of healthy muffins in there too, so they can pick and choose what they want each day. And my son especially loves his carrot sticks.
I love these lunchboxes as our school is wrapper free, and the different sized boxes makes it so much easier to slot in all different kinds of snacks without them all rolling around till lunch/snack time. Yay! Hope I win

Kendall Pickering said,

My 7yo loves when I cut her sandwiches into shapes with a cutter – she gets lots of oohhs and aaaahs when I do it lol. It’s nice to be able to make a simple jam, honey or vegemite sandwich into something cute. I do try to have salad rolls or sandwiches but sometimes I’m just not that organised!!

Deb Jays said,

I try to do different things for my three in their lunchboxes, a big hit is mini quiches, very tasty they tell me, well one big hit. They love fruit salad as well, I put it in a small container with a small fork. About once a month on a Friday I put in a surprise in their lunchboxes, it could just be a note from me (Mummuy!) or a some sort of healthy treat, small of course, they love surprises!! This is an awesome giveaway! 🙂

Vanessa Blood said,

My daughter was such a fussy vegie eater until i discovered your lifesaving book!! She has been much more open to eating her vegetables thanks to the delicious and nutritious recipes in the Vegie Smugglers book. Her favourite is the vegetable lasagne! We would love to try the Luv It cutter, as she is currently learning her shapes and that would make eating her yummy healthy sandwiches much more fun!

Katie Oleksyn said,

spaceformagic said,

What a great giveaway, my daughter starts school next term and I’ve been debating what lunch box to get her, I really want a bento style as this is how she loves to eat. She particularly likes muffins – pumpkin, bran and sultana or savoury cheese and parsley. Otherwise it’s mostly cut up fruit/veg and crackers. I’m keen to try pizza pin wheels as she loves pizza.

Del b said,

We have just finished our first term of kindergarten and lost our lunchbox!! Our children thoroughly enjoy zucchini and carrot muffins with cinnamon in them. In addition the no,e made cheesy mite scrolls are also a faviurite

Jaclyn Bartlett said,

Jane said,

Hi Wendy, my kids are into peanut butter and avocado (yes, together), bread “sushi”. It’s bread with the crusts removed, flattened, spread with filling, rolled and sliced. They go nuts if I use food picks as well (from the $2.80 Japanese store).
By the way I love, love, love your books and posts. Keep it up!

My oldest isn’t quite a school yet, as much as she’s bursting to go, but she still loves eating from a ‘snack’ box. I struggle to get her to eat anything at all but sandwiches are usually at least tried. Right now the favourite is 100% peanut butter from the farmers market. Think I need to have a look at your new e-book Wendy, to get some more inspiration.

peta said,

I went to a Luncboxes with love info session and left so inspired! My kids love anything i have baked myself really. Cookies, muffins, date loaf – and nothing in packets – they go to a wastefree school.

Jodie Parke said,

Donna said,

My kids are loving the 9 grain Vita-Brits for lunch at the moment, along with fruit salad and yoghurt for morning tea. I would love to try out the sandwich cutters to entice them to eat wholegrain bread!

Teresa Murray said,

My daughter loves finger food, whether it is pieces of cheese, olives, carrot sticks…as long as it is cute, small and manageable she loves it! I try to make sure I give her lots of new food experiences and even if I dont like it myself I let her experience it. She loves vegemite and beetroot, even though I am not a fan myself:)

Mel C said,

My daughter is in her 2nd year of preschool so big school next year! She is gluten free so it’s a bit of a challenge to get her to eat anything. She loves strawberries, cheese, ham and magic bean cake and would be happy with that every day

Missy said,

Em Luomanen said,

My kids love the sneaky choc chip biscuits that I make for their lunches which are packed full of hidden goodness like cannelini beans, rolled oats, cranberries and coconut. They also love to take yoghurt to school and fruit. My daughter absolutely adores Kiwi fruit at the moment.

Holly said,

Our boys don’t go much on sandwiches so we regularly have what I call tasting boxes! They are hit! Pickled onions, cubed cheese, carrot and celery sticks, colds meats (shredded chicken, turkey breast or ham) and crackers, sometimes boiled eggs as well. Their mates think it is fantastic as well.

My kids absolutely love the choc chip biscuits that are full of lot of hidden goodness like cannelini beans, rolled oats and sometimes I also sneak in cranberries and coconut. They’re also a big fan of yoghurt and fruit in their lunch boxes. My daughter has recently discovered Kiwi Fruit and thinks that they’re the best fruit ever!

Shannon said,

My daughter now 20 loved dried fruits and blue cheese as a kid, she recently told to me that when she was 4 she had no friends because she had sultanas in her lunch box (I reckon it was the cheese!). So glad she is grown up now but we do still pack cute and yummy lunches together. Todays box – celery with a little tub of cottage cheese and some mixed fresh herbs, baby bocconcini with yellow and red egg tomatoes and basil flowers, tuna and rocket salad … (all the veg and herbs etc came from our garden) always have and always will fill her lunchbox with a note of love, or otherwise, from Mummy – I know she loves it really 🙂

Sarah Hausler said,

I was literally just googling Bento style kids lunchboxes, so even if I don’t win I’ll be ordering a lunchbox set for my little monkey! Her tastes change on a daily basis (hard to keep up!) but at the moment she totally loves cherry tomatoes, grapes and blueberries. If only they made some other vegies round and bite sized! May have to invest in a melon baller….

Stephanie said,

My kids are very fussy and seem to prefer plain old vegemite or peanut butter sandwiches but I have had a few breakthroughs lately with my daughter really getting into smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwiches and my son happily munching on carrot sticks. Maybe a new lunchbox and snazzy sandwich cutter will turn them into more adventurous eaters!

Kirrily said,

The popular items are always whatever Charlotte has in her lunch box (my sons best friend). Luckily Charlotte’s mum is a stickler for healthy lunches and so we have the flow on effect! Current favourites include: bowls of yoghurt with fresh raspberries, zucchini slice (cold) and (since my son has outgrown his egg allergy) any sandwich which includes “egg mayonnaise”.

Kym Coleman said,

Ciara loves the traffic lights, the carrot and corn ones are her favorite. thanks for your cookbooks wendy, they are a life changer! having ma po dofu tonight, made it so many times I dont need the cookbook now.

Playgroup lunchboxes here, and the favourites are grapes, fruit of any description really, sultanas, and rice crackers. I would love to be able to get them to enjoy some baked goodies that I can make that would be nutritious as well as yummy, and this prize might just help me do that 🙂

My son loves his homebaked cake, a favourite being a raspberry frangipan tart, or carrott cake. His staples in his bento box are yoghurt, fruit, (bake like bikkies or cake) and a toasted wrap with various toppings. We also go for apple scrolls, homemade pizza, homemade sultana bread, homemade crumbed chicken. My daughter is jealous and I aim to get her a bento box when she starts school next year too!

kissmealready said,

Playgroup lunchboxes here – the favourites are always grapes, but really fruit of any description is always a hit. I would love to be able to make food for my little ones that they would love like various baked goodies that are nutritious and yummy, but they seem to be too fussy at the moment. I will keep trying 🙂

Jenni said,

Suzy Kitson said,

i try to make a banana bread each week and vary the recipe to add a few more things.. at the moment i add a whole orange and pecans.. that seems to be a winner. Also my daughter loves anything she can dip, i’ll cook extra crunchy chicken and give her some homemade mango chutney to dip them into. or, i’ll make a quick avocado salsa with carrot sticks. Then, as she is gluten intolerant we steer away from sandwiches and do mountain bread wraps instead, sometimes toasted with tuna, grated carrot and tomato.. or left over roast meat and salad.. she loves it and so do i!!!

Tracey said,

One of my twin 6 yr olds is a coeliac so is restricted re choice. 2 favourites are raisen bread with vanilla yoghurt, grated carrot and honey. The other is bread with banana, coconut, cinnamon, tahini and honey put in the sandwich maker in the morning.

Cindy said,

Jody said,

My very anti vegie 5yr old loves your choc zucchini muffins I discovered in the march 2013 issue of HFG. The first batch he ate without question then to my horror he wanted to help me make them and saw me mixing in the zucchini! Surprisingly he doesn’t care and requested them again after eating the second batch! I am planning on buying some vegie smugglers book packs for my iPad very soon. I’m looking forward to trying some more recipes!